Do moves weakening whatever attraction the alternatives had (in Columbus an alternative, Columbus Alive, was recently taken over by the main daily newspaper and turned into an advertising flyer) mean that there is an opening for a revival of the "underground" press? Probably not, given the production costs and the dedication of left and counter-cultural opinion to the web. I saw one value of the underground press (and after them the better alternatives) to be their public "people" presence - hawkers, street vending boxes, held by readers on the subway/bus, available on the coffee shop racks, and even, yes, as litter blowin' in the wind down Bleeker Street.
- Bill Louis Proyect wrote:
For many years this NYC "alternative" weekly newspaper was a place where bright young reporters and arts critics got their start. Now that it has been gobbled up by a national syndicate of such papers, they evidently plan to cut heads through consolidation. I usually look in on the Los Angeles Weekly for a minute or two every Thursday when it comes out, since it is a fairly important left-liberal venue. When I read a review of Clint Eastwood's new film on Iwo Jima, it sounded quite familiar. It turns out that the review ran in the Village Voice yesterday as well: http://www.villagevoice.com/film/0642,foundas,74758,20.html http://www.laweekly.com/film+tv/film/print-the-legend/14815/ This looks like the "USA Today" model applied to the counter-culture, such as it is. -- www.marxmail.org .marxmail.org
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